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October 28, 2007  From the retro music blog Disco Delivery, which is a fantastic digital museum of obscure late 70s disco records, comes an authoritative report on the astonishing Lafleur! album from 1979. The album is a disco cash-in from Canadian hockey star Guy Lafleur, and I think this amazing description says it all: "Lavishly packaged in a gatefold sleeve, complete with instructional booklet and fold-out poster of a shirtless Lafleur, much of the album consists of Guy's own personal hockey tips set to a disco beat with Lafleur speaking over the bass-thumping grooves, backed with a chorus of cooing, catchy female vocalists, adding encouragement and emphasis on Lafleur's key points." October 22, 2007  My most recent obsession has been with MonstersHD, an amazing cable channel newly added to the Cablevision HD lineup in New York. MonstersHD, originally part of the Dolan empire's crazy Voom lineup, is a simple concept; it shows completely uncut and commercial-free horror movies, mostly from the 70s and 80s, all day long in remastered hi-def. Some nights, I feel like I was somehow unconsciously in charge of programming for the station... Tomorrow evening, for instance, features the astonishing one-two-three punch of C.H.U.D., C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud, and Xtro II. One evening recently, I just happened to flip by Bloodstone: Subspecies II, an extremely obscure, creepy Full Moon movie that is probably not as good as I thought it was when I was 14. During a particularly compelling "zombie" day last weekend, large amounts of programming time were devoted to the mind-boggling 1988 horror-comedy misfire Dead Heat (pictured above), with Joe Piscopo and Treat Williams. Some of these movies have been barely available on home video, let alone in full HD. October 15, 2007  From a hipster recycling heap in Bushwick, a sad picture of where indie music goes to die. The RIAA should be happy another dangerous CD-r is off the streets. October 02, 2007  From the archives, here's a very special message from Leonard Nimoy. (Click the image above for the larger, readable version.) This is the back of the LP sleeve from the very rare In Search Of... soundtrack, released in 1977. For those of you who don't remember, and I imagine there are many of you, In Search Of... was a fantastic psuedo-science TV documentary program from the mid-70s where Nimoy would introduce segments wildly speculating on the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the treasure of Oak Island, the Crystal Skulls of South America, and many others. Here's the opening sequence from a typically hilarious episode, including the legendary main titles, on YouTube. And as a special treat, here's a small musical sample from the long-lost LP. |